Oregon Food Stamps (SNAP) 2026: Income Limits and Benefits Calculator

Not sure your income qualifies? See can I get food stamps if I make a given amount a month.

The federal columns are effective October 1, 2026. The Oregon 200 percent column is effective from March 2026 through February 2027, and countable income must be less than it. The federal columns are the standard limits: a household with an elderly or disabled member skips the gross test, and a categorically eligible household skips both tests. The Oregon column is the categorical eligibility limit.

ODHS's notebook says a filing group is broad-based categorically eligible (BBCE) when at least one member is neither categorically eligible nor expanded categorically eligible and the group received, or will receive upon approval, the Information and Referral Services pamphlet and has countable income less than 200% FPL. The calculator treats income below the 200 percent column as categorically eligible, so the gross and net income tests do not apply, and assumes the group received the pamphlet. Income equal to the column figure is not below it, so the calculator then applies the regular tests.

The notebook says only non-categorically eligible need groups have to meet the resource limit and categorically eligible groups are assumed to meet it. The transmittal lists the limit for other households: $4,750 for a household with at least one member age 60 or older or disabled, and $3,000 for all other households.

The federal asset limits for households that are not categorically eligible are $3,000, or $4,750 when a member is 60 or older or disabled (FY 2027).

FY 2027 (effective October 1, 2026): heating and cooling allowance $533; limited (other utilities) allowance $418; single-utility allowance $67; telephone allowance $84. Oregon has four standard utility allowances, the same for every household size. The full utility allowance is for a filing group that incurs heating or cooling costs on a regular basis (energy assistance counts only when the group includes someone who is elderly or disabled). The limited allowance is for a group paying at least two non-heating utility expenses, the individual allowance for one non-heating expense that is not a telephone, and the telephone allowance for a group that pays only for a telephone. The notebook says there is no additional allowance for actual utility expenses above the allowance.

Internet costs no longer count toward shelter or utility costs under Public Law 119-21 section 10104, and a LIHEAP or similar payment gives the heating and cooling allowance only to a household with an elderly or disabled member (section 10103).

Oregon's own source treats legally owed child support you pay as a deduction, so the calculator subtracts it with the other deductions.

The ODHS SNAP page says you can apply online, by phone or in person at a local office, and that when you apply for SNAP you can also apply for other benefits like cash assistance and Oregon Health Plan (Medicaid).

ODHS: apply online, by phone or in person · Oregon Department of Human Services (ODHS)

• Gross test: 200% of poverty for categorically eligible households (skipping the net test), the federal 130% limit otherwise.
• Deductions and maximum benefit: the FY 2027 federal maximum benefit and deductions, except as follows: Oregon gives a filing group with an elderly or disabled member and allowable medical expenses over $35 a standard medical deduction of $170 (expenses up to $205), or the actual verified expenses less $35 when they are over $205 (as of the notebook edition dated April 2026); the calculator applies it.
• Child support you pay: a deduction, as the state source says.
• Utilities: Oregon's allowances effective October 1, 2026.

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All sources are government pages, read October 31 – November 1, 2026, except the pages marked below, which were read from Internet Archive captures of the agency page on the date shown.

• USDA FNS, SNAP cost-of-living adjustments (FY 2027 income limits, allotments and deductions) (read from the Internet Archive capture of October 7, 2026)
• USDA FNS, SNAP eligibility (income limits, deductions and worked example) (read from the Internet Archive capture of October 20, 2026)
• 7 CFR 273.9, income and deductions (eCFR, current as of October 29, 2026)
• 7 CFR 273.10, determining household eligibility and benefit levels (eCFR, current as of October 29, 2026)
• 7 CFR 271.2, definitions (elderly or disabled member)
• 7 U.S.C. 2014, eligible households (U.S. Code, 2024 edition on govinfo; Cornell LII copy linked in the text)
• Public Law 119-21 (July 4, 2025), sections 10101 to 10104, enacted text on govinfo
• USDA FNS, questions and answers on internet expenses and energy assistance payments (May 8, 2026) (read from the Internet Archive capture of July 11, 2026)
• USDA FNA, simplified process for FY 2027 standard utility allowance values (August 24, 2026) (read from the Internet Archive capture of September 30, 2026)
• ODHS Oregon Eligibility Partnership Transmittal OEP-PT-26-033, FFY 2027 cost-of-living standards for SNAP (October 8, 2026)
• ODHS Oregon Eligibility Partnership Transmittal OEP-PT-26-005, 2026 federal poverty level income standard updates (SNAP BBCE limit)
• ODHS Oregon Programs Eligibility Notebook (OPEN), Chapter 2, edition dated April 2026
• ODHS SNAP Food Benefits page